God delights in giving his people the real thing to eat. “Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.” The Hebrew word for rich is literally fat. The feast that he provides in the gospel is not a meager, low-carbohydrate or low-fat diet.

In the animated film, Ratatouille, a story about a gifted rat in Paris who dreams of becoming a chef, Remy, the main character, laments the fact that his fellow rats are content with eating garbage. “If you are what you eat,” declares Remy at the beginning of the movie, “then I only want to eat the good stuff.”